On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 3:26 PM, eraemaajaervi <[email protected]> wrote:

> how can i make sure this won't happen again, to me or to anyone else? i'd be
> happy to help

I am not at present using Shotwell, though I did try it for a bit. My
needs are much simpler and I am overly paranoid about losing images
(particularly considering their value. I am a wannabe gifted snap
shooter. ;)

I have a shell script that copies images form the source into
directories structured ~/Pictures/yyyy/mm/dd/ according to exif data
of if that's not there, it uses file time stamp. From there I manually
copy to a working directory in ~/Pictures/yyyy-mm-dd_Subject_or_Event/
and perform any post processing there. I have script (just an rsync
command, actually) that copies the files to my NAS on demand and my
NAS backs itself up nightly to another NAS at my son's place. (Both
NASs are Atom based systems running Ubuntu Server so I have full
programming capabilities on them.)

Nevertheless, before I delete a card, I copy the entire contents
somewhere "just in case." I'm happy to hear that you were able to
recover the deleted pictures. IMO disk space is so cheap these days it
does not pay to not have some redundancy built into the work flow.

Eventually I will delete some of the pictures on the local PC if I
need the space.

best,
hank

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